July 1

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July 1, 1646

Birth of Gottfried Leibniz in Leipzig. Leibniz is the inventor of differential and integral calculus. (Newton also invented calculus independently at about the same time. Leibnitz was the first to publish.)

July 1, 1818

Birth of the physician, Karl von Vierordt in Baden, Germany. He developed techniques and instruments for the analysis of blood.

July 1, 1881

Death of Rudolf Lotze in Berlin, Germany. Lotze was a philosopher who developed the philosophy of Theistic Idealism. He studied at the University of Leipzig. He later taught at the Universities of Leipzig, Göttingen and Berlin. His noted books are "Logik" (1843), "Mikrokosmos" (3 vols. 1856-64) and "Metaphysik" (1879).

July 1, 1900

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin flies his first airship, the LZ-1.

July 1, 1926

Birth of the German composer Hans Werner Henze in Gütersloh, Germany. He began within the 12 tone style but then developed a variety of expressions.

July 1, 1959

Heinrich Lübke (CDU) is elected President of the Federal Republic of Germany. (West Germany)

July 1, 1964

Heinrich Lübke (CDU) is reelected President of the Federal Republic of Germany.

July 1, 1990

Introduction of the West German Mark in East Germany preceding the full reunification.

July 1, 1993

Germany changes its system of postal codes, a change made necessary by the reunification.

July 1, 1995

Roman Herzog succeeds Richard von Weizäcker as Germany's President (Bundespräsident).

July 1, 1999 

Johannes Rau succeeds Roman Herzog as Germany's President (Bundespräsident).

July 1, 2004

Horst Köhler is inaugurated as Germany's President (Bundespräsident)

July 1, 2005

Vote of no confidence is taken in the German Bundestag against chancellor Gerhard Schröer.